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Space Bubble Episode 3: Robots and beat 'em-ups

Crave This week you can feast your tentacles on an exploration of whether robots deserve human rights, and witness everything there is to know about the socio-cultural evolution of the beat 'em-up videogame.

4 May 2007, 12:29

Stick 'em up: Samsung YP-U1 and YP-U2

Crave You have to admire Samsung's verve -- it's bringing new MP3 player children into the world with the dedication of The Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe. The vast armies of new Samsung MP3 player models advance like a batallion of expendable soldiers.

Tags: samsung, usb, players, bar

31 March 2006, 12:58

Best plug-ins for Firefox 3

Crave Extensions, plug-ins, add-ons, whatever you want to call 'em, Firefox 3 has got 'em. In fact, though it may seem that many of your favourites haven't yet updated, you might be in luck. By visiting the home pages of several of the plug-ins we use...

Tags: bookmarks, downloading, add ons, ons

18 June 2008, 12:30

Guess who's going to Vegas...

Crave If you're kicking yourself for not bothering to enter this year, then console yourself with the three (count 'em), three other competitions we've got currently running on the site. Someone's gotta win 'em.

Tags: check, em, las vegas, fix

6 November 2006, 18:00

Nokia N96 and N78: Hands-on with Nokia's new Ns

Crave You either love 'em or hate 'em, but it seems Nokia isn't ready to get rid of its dual-sliding dedicated media keys. But all is not lost, because these handsets are much more than mere upgrades. The Nokia N96 is a step up from the Nokia N95 8GB and...

11 February 2008, 16:14

The 30 dumbest videogame titles ever

Crave Premise: A hamster -- radioactive, of course -- with martial arts skills, takes on various opponents in this rodent beat 'em up. Premise: In this scrolling beat 'em up, it's up to you to annihilate enemies by using ninja skills and baseball bats.

27 March 2008, 9:21

Planet CNET Episode 9: Taking virtual bullets and Wiihab

Crave Maybe next time we'll get Kara to don one for an international virtual shoot 'em up.Meanwhile, we think the Japanese could use a cuddle. We're back with another scrumdiddlyumptious episode of Planet CNET.

9 July 2008, 13:00

Samsung LE32R41BD: Bargain brilliance

Crave Samsung LCD TVs -- we just love 'em here on Crave. Can't get enough of the blighters. We recently reviewed the LE40R51B, and even though it was one of the best-value flat screens we'd ever seen, 40 inches might be too big for the average living room.

Tags: samsung, model, inch, freeview

24 October 2005, 11:17

Video killed the games star

Crave We love 'em here at Crave -- we can watch The Office on the way to work, show off to our fellow commuters and get cool I-nearly-got- mugged anecodotes, all at the same time. Portable Video Players. Now we've bought a 1GB Memory Stick Duo, we can do...

Tags: sony computer entertainment europe, psp, memory stick, commercial

14 May 2005, 13:09

Hands-on with the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS20: Purely belter

Crave Compact cameras: we love 'em. They slip in your pocket, you whip them out, you take a picture, put the picture on Facebook. Job's a good'un. But simple to operate doesn't mean you can't expect attention to detail, and Panasonic certainly knows...

15 April 2008, 10:54

Asus A33: Media Center PC with integrated hi-fi amp

Crave Got 'em. You can always count on Asus to come up with interesting twists on old themes. Leather laptops? Check. Lamborghini-branded machines? External graphics cards for 3D-deficient laptops? Yup. Its latest innovation comes in the form of a Media...

Tags: asus, laptops, hdmi, media center

16 March 2007, 17:37

Crave Podcast 84: Wii pole-dancing game imminent?

Crave It's the first episode we can remember that features five -- count 'em -- five members. The Crave Podcast is back for its 84th episode, and by golly it's a cracker. Rory, Rupert and Ian, plus two lovely ladies: Kate 'Maceface' Macefield, and...

Tags: podcast, episode, dancing, crave podcast

9 May 2008, 11:00

Crave Talk: Ebook reader will be literature's iPod

Crave A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West," so said novelist EM Forster. "Books have to be read. It is the only way of discovering what they contain.

Tags: sony, method, electronic, panasonic

4 October 2006, 12:37

Camera memory madness: Toshiba and Eye-Fi

Crave Toshiba has scheduled a July release for its new 4, count 'em, 4GB micro Secure Digital High Capacity cards. Got a digital camera with the capacity to take hundreds, nay thousands, of pictures in one go?

Tags: toshiba, wi fi, fi, capacity

29 June 2007, 13:00

Casio Exilim Z-1200: Photo-taker's dozen

Crave So we got very excited when Casio lobbed the Exilim Z-1200 through our office window like a black stealth brick.This is a 12 -- count 'em -- 12-megapixel camera with a giant 71mm (2.8 inch) LCD screen.

Tags: casio, compact, megapixel, face

16 July 2007, 11:47